See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.